財金分離

これは直接労働法政策には関係ないのですが、日本の労働組合のナショナルセンターが組織的に支持している政党が、中央銀行総裁候補を認めるかどうかの基準として、財政と金融の分離、つまりどんなに景気が悪化して労働者がひどい目に遭おうとも、断固として中央銀行の独立性を守るべし、という超タカ派的思想を明確にし、あまつさえ、低金利政策をとり続けたことを理由に反対するという事態は、もちろんいろんな考え方があってもいいわけですが、比較政治的には極めて奇妙な事態とは言えるでしょうね。

通常、まあ何が「通常」かは人によっていろんな考え方があるでしょうが、少なくともヨーロッパでは、労働組合や社会民主主義政党は、中央銀行の独立性には否定的で、政治的要請に迅速に応じて、できるだけ金利を低くしろというのが通常であるように見受けられますので、多分、連合の支持政党はそれとは正反対の経済思想をお持ちなのだろうなあ、と思うだけですが。

参考までに、最近の欧州労連の欧州中銀に対する発言です。

http://www.etuc.org/a/4374

>ETUC expresses disbelief over ‘hawkish’ messages coming from the European Central Bank

At the meeting of the governing council of the European Central Bank (ECB) last Thursday, council members are reported to have discussed the possibility of raising interest rates. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) finds this attitude unhelpful and calls instead for a cut in interest rates to address the unfolding economic slowdown.

With three month inter-bank interest rates shooting up to 4.86%, the financial crisis is intensifying. Higher finance costs, together with tightening credit standards and an overvalued euro exchange rate, are working to produce a significant slowdown in growth. To avoid a new slump in growth, interest rates should be cut, not raised.

http://www.etuc.org/a/4540

>European Central Bank must respond to wake-up calls

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) calls on the board of the European Central Bank (ECB), meeting today in Frankfurt, to abandon its outdated theoretical monetary approaches and instead open its eyes to economic reality.

At the current time:

Strong transatlantic economic ties mean the euro area will not escape recession in the US economy.

The Federal Reserve’s policy of aggressive rate cuts will work to undermine the dollar and the euro area’s competitive position.

The subprime-induced financial crisis has not been contained at all, but is spreading in an alarming way. Potential investors are confronted with a credit squeeze as well as higher credit costs.

Business cycle indicators are going down, indicating growth prospects are shallow.

http://www.etuc.org/a/4692

>The ECB must respond to the strengthening euro

European Central Bank (ECB)and euro area finance ministers should take action to adjust the value of the EU currency, instead of hiding behind US policy-makers, urges the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).

The euro exchange rate has recently breached the 1.50$ barrier. The euro’s continuing appreciation is becoming alarming. An excessively expensive euro will cost European jobs, coming as it does on top of other setbacks to growth (the sub-prime financial crisis and credit squeeze, the US recession, and the end of the construction boom in several EU countries).

The ETUC calls on the Governing Council of the ECB, which meets today, to recognise at last that the balance of risks has shifted and that the threat to growth is now so serious that an urgent cut in interest rates is required.

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つまり、連合が組織的に支持している政党は、階級論的分析からするとですな、労働者階級でもなければ企業家階級でもなく、金利生活者階級の利益をひたすら追求する政党であるということに相成るわけなんですが、そんなことでええのですか？と誰か言わんのかねえ。

ちなみに、はてぶで「反リフレを標榜するhamachan先生」と言われていますが、

http://b.hatena.ne.jp/entry/http://eulabourlaw.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/03/post_8e8c.html

いや、私は反「特殊日本的な９９％フリードマン主義者のリフレ派」なだけで、「反リフレ」を標榜した覚えはありませんが。

そんなの、インフレは目減りにより金利生活者に損失を与え、デフレは失業により労働者に損失を与えるなんてことは、ケインズ先生が大昔から言ってることでしょう。